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after certain tax dodgers as criminals
if they try to do the same thing this
year they have done other years.
Here are some of Hoyne's warnings:
"Three months ago it was "sug
gested to the taxing bodies that when
the field assessors delivered schedules
they should not merely throw the
schedules into the vestibules of
homes or slide them under the doors,
but ring the doorbell and personally
see some one who at that time was
in charge of the residence. It was
also suggested in the same letter that
the field assessor, when delivering
the schedules, should deliver a print
ed demand in the name of and signed
in typewriting or printed by the board
of review, requiring the filing of such
schedule. It was further suggested
that printed receipts be presented for
signature. This requires no addi
tional calls by the field assessor.
"This furnishes a check to the tax
ing bodies that the field assessors
have performed their duties. It is
eminently practical and will aid in
prosectuion.
"I have frequently said that if we
are not going to enforce the laws
rigidly and are to select some classes
of personal property for exemption,
that we should begin with:
"Household furniture and effects,
all savings deposits in banks, trust
companies and other corporations,
estates of widows, orphans and minor
children where the estates are not
actively employed in business but are
investments to insure support of ben
eficiaries. "I still insist that to equalize taxa
tion in Cook county, which for years
has been grossly and perhaps fraud
ulently unjust, there should be in
creased taxation on thousands of
acres of unimproved land in this
county, held by corporations under
private charter, and by other corp
porations and individuals, and that
there should be an increase on the
taxation of many classes of person
al property that are employed in busi
ness for the earning of large profits."
CABARET SINGER SAYS TROUT
IS AN OLD FRIEND
The Rev. I. B. Trout, whose abrupt
resignation as pastor of the Breth
ren church at Lanark, 111., and editor
of the Teachers' Monthly, stirred the
church world, received another rak
ing from the object of bis attempts
to "elevate" Florence Maxwell.
"Babe" Maxwell, as she is called,
claims that the pastor who says he
was seeking matter for his book on
sociology, was a "man about town"
in the south saloons and cafes, where
he was known as Dr. N. R. Bennett,
"the Goat."
Letters galore from "Dr. Bennett,"
which are of a loving nature, she
shows, and she claims that "the doc
tor" made love to her upon the
grounds that he was a rich bachelor.
His story about elevating her and
buying clothes have angered her pa
rents, who live at 3646 Grand blvd.,
and they threaten legal action
against the former pastor.
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LOCATE SUBMARINE NO HOPE
FOR CREW OF TWENTY-ONE
Honolulu, March 27. The missing
submarine F-4, located by grappling
irons late yesterday 300 feet beneath
the waves, will probably be brought
up today.
Noval construction experts and div
ers say it is futile to hold hopes for
the lives of the 2 officers and 19 men.
The depth to which the vessel sunk
is now accepted as the direct cause
of the first American submarine dis
aster. Enormous water pressure at
300 feet, it is regarded certain, crush
ed in her sides like an egg shell.
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TELEGRAPH BRIEFS
Dallas, Tex. Europe's armies are
burning up most of cotton obtained
from U. S. by making it into gun cot
con, statement of E. H. R. Green,
Hetty Green's son.
Osstburg, Wis. Henry Roerdink
and daughter and daughter Wilma,
11, fatally burned. Kerosene explod
ed in kitchen sto